Pottersson wrote:On an unrelated topic, why hasn't there been an official .deb package (or rpm) hosted on freebasic.net? That would drastically simplify installation because all the library dependencies would be satisfied by the package manager.

Second to that !
A great program, FreeBasic has been spoiled with lousy installation system.
I managed to install 0.18 and run it after a lot of Googling.
Installing version 0.21 is as if walking to a wall.

Trying to get back into programming a little. I've tried installing from the options on the download page to no avail, the .run files pop open a terminal but it immediately close and there is nothing installed. Is there any new news for 0.23 on a 64 bit machine?? specifically Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?

I'm tempted to just try it under wine, I really would rather have something native